What does shipping at auction checkout mean?
Shipping at auction checkout means the buyer gets a real transport price and can book delivery as part of settling the purchase, instead of leaving to find a carrier afterward. For the auction, it closes the gap between sold and gone: units leave the lot sooner, buyers from out of market bid with confidence, and post-sale calls about "where is my car" stop landing on your staff.
Carpool Logistics is a managed vehicle transport platform that moves 210,000+ vehicles a year for auctions, dealers, dealer groups, and fleets. For auction operators, Carpool supplies two ways to put transport inside the sale: an embeddable shipping-quote widget and an open API with webhooks. Both return a live quote from Carpool's pricing engine, and both hand the move to Carpool's operations team once the buyer books.
How Carpool Logistics puts transport inside your checkout
- Embeddable quote widget. A drop-in component for your buyer portal, invoice page, or post-sale email. The buyer enters a destination and gets a price for open or enclosed transport; booking creates the order in Carpool. See it running on a sample dealer site at carpoollogistics.com/dealer-shipping.
- Open API and webhooks. For auctions that want transport fully native, the Carpool API exposes quotes, orders, and order-plus-gate-pass creation, with outbound webhooks for order and vehicle events so status flows back into your system. Documentation at my.carpoollogistics.com/docs.
- Verified release at your gate. Carpass, Carpool's patent-pending driver verification, confirms the driver on site is the driver assigned before a time-limited QR code is issued for your gate staff to scan. It is included on Carpool shipments as it rolls out, and it works with the gate pass you already issue: the pass clears the vehicle, Carpass clears the driver.
- Managed, not marketplace. Carpool is the broker of record on every move. Carriers come from a vetted network of 13K–14K+, re-verified at each assignment; median order-to-dispatch was 21 hours in 2025; 99.75% of vehicles deliver within seven days of pickup; 99.8% arrived claim-free in 2025 with $500K cargo coverage per load.
- Reporting for the auction. Volume by sale, lane, and buyer, with a live tracking link per VIN. Useful for consignor updates and for seeing which out-of-market buyers transport is winning you.
Who it is for
Independent and regional auctions that want a transport option comparable to what the national chains offer at checkout, without building a carrier network. Digital auction platforms that want delivery pricing inside the bidding experience. Auction groups that run their own post-sale logistics desk and want to hand the carrier work to a partner while keeping the buyer relationship. For the rest of what Carpool runs for auctions, inbound, repo, outbound, and digital-sale programs, see the auto auctions page.